User talk:Kiahnicole

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Speedy deletion nomination of TweenTribune.com

A tag has been placed on TweenTribune.com, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be unambiguous advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as Wikipedia:FAQ/Business for more information. You may also wish to consider using a Wizard to help you create articles - see the Article Wizard.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding {{hangon}} to the top of the page that has been nominated for deletion (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the page meets the criterion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the page that would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Lastly, please note that if the page does get deleted, you can contact one of these admins to request that they userfy the page or have a copy emailed to you. Template:Do not delete - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 06:59, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

You can simply erase all the text, and then I or someone else will mark it for speedy deletion because of author blanking. Then you can rewrite the article and submit it again. But bear in mind that the web site needs to meet Wikipedia standards for notability, and frankly, I'm not certain this one does. And the best-written article in the world won't help a subject that is not notable. When you do submit a rewrite, lay off the blurbs from other writers. That really makes it look like a promotional article. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 07:57, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. Will do. I appreciate your advice.

Reallyhick: Can you please look at the following draft and tell me if it's closer to meeting Wikipedia's standards? If so, I will clean it up, format it, add to it, and resubmit for approval. But I'd like to get your opinion first, if possible. Also, does a mention higher up of an L.A. Times story (I'd show you, but I can't link to it here) on TweenTribune help with the "notability" problem?

TweenTribune.com

TweenTribune is an online newspaper for kids, aged 8-15. It is updated daily with stories from the Associated Press that are compelling, relevant, interesting and useful to tweens, which they post comments upon. Teachers use the site to meet No Child Left Behind requirements for reading, writing and computers.

The site is intended to teach children to seek out news on a daily basis so they become well-informed adults and better participants in American democracy. It is also a proof-of-concept model for new ways to fund journalism online.

The site employs a series of previously untried methods for building audience and revenue. These strategies grew audience and revenue in a matter of weeks, but it remains too soon to tell whether these strategies are the "silver bullet" that media companies seek to funding journalism in the digital age.

BUSINESS MODEL: To achieve uses a series of strategies to reduce cost combined with a group of diversified revenue streams to form a previously untested business model for online news.

Low cost, mulitple revenue streams.

LOW-COST CONTENT MODEL - User-generated content (UGC) - in the form of comments posted by students. Unique content provided by users reduces the need to fund oringinal content. - Distributive editing (DE) - all comments are moderated, by the editing task is distributed across the user base of teachers who must approve their students' comments before they are published online. Distributed editing provides valuable editorial oversight at no cost. - Cloud computing provides on-demand scalability to meet user demand without the need to deploy costly dedicated servers that may sit idle during periods of low demand. - Open source code. Webservers use these open source code applications: LInux, PHP, MySQL; The content management system (CMS) is also open source code: Drupal.

REVENUE STREAMS - Display advertising is targeted demographically, based on the appeal of the content to a youth audience, and geographically, with specific local ads served up based on the IP address of the user. So the user's location determine which ads they see. - Sponsorships by national advertisers which are not targeted geographically - "Freemium" model, in which basic features are provided to teachers and students at no cost, with specific value-added features are provided at an additional, nominal cost. (Cite Chris Anderson's "Free- the future of radical price) - Subscription fees paid by local media companies to promote their brands and local content to the next generation of news consumers.

HISTORY ...to come

TECHNOLOGY The site is built on the Drupal open-source code content management system (CMS), with custom modules developed by EbizonNetinfo of Noida, India. The site his hosted by Rackspace in San Antonio, Texas. It employs a unique, hybrid hosting solution developed by Rackspace to provide the instant and automatic scalability via cloud-based file severs while preserving the security of the sites database with a dedicated server.

CITATIONS ...to come

Kiahnicole (talk) 06:50, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

The LA Times citation will help (why can you not link to it?), but if that's all you have, honestly that won't be enough. Here's how this looks right now: You have a new website that is targeted to teens, and you're hoping this will build into something bigger, so you're promoting it on Wikipedia 'cause it's free and lots of people read it, and WP ranks high on Google results. Unfortunately, this draft contains facts about the site's technology and business plan that only an insider would know, so it goes against conflict of interest guidelines. Unless you can provide some references to show that others recognize the notability of the site, this article simply won't cut it. It reads like a thinly-disguised press release, which is simply a form of advertising and promotion. The best-written article in the world won't make a non-notable subject notable. Sorry. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 07:13, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

January 2010

Welcome to Wikipedia. The recent edit you made to TweenTribune.com has been reverted, as it appears to have removed content from the page without explanation. Use the sandbox for testing; if you believe the edit was constructive, please ensure that you provide an informative edit summary. You may also wish to read the introduction to editing. Thank you. Shadowjams (talk) 08:01, 2 January 2010 (UTC)